Egypt's press decries refugee killings

Egypt's press decries refugee killings
Sunday 01 January 2006, 14:56 Makka Time, 11:56 GMT

Egypt's independent and opposition press has criticised police for forcibly
breaking up a three-month protest by Sudanese refugees that left as many as
25 people dead.

"Shame on Egypt," thundered the headline in the Al-Arabi newspaper on
Sunday, as relatives held funerals across Cairo for the dead, who included
women and children.

"Prosecute the murderers and dismiss the minister of interior," the paper
demanded

Thousands of riot police wielding sticks and water cannon forcibly removed
hundreds of Sudanese demonstrators, in an operation that began at dawn on
Friday.

The independent Al-Isboa newspaper called it "the night the human conscience
was lost."

"The interior ministry lost its mind and killed 20 Sudanese in the
Mohandiseen massacre," declared Sawt al-Umma, referring to the upmarket
Cairo neighbourhood where up to 2000 refugees had been camping outside UN
offices to draw attention to their cause.

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